wee

Etymology 1

From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”) and *wēgǭ (“weight”), related to Middle English weġan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).

adj

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
   The beat of its wee heart held against her own, sent her intense maternity surging like the spring sap in a young tree. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 275
   I had not seen a wee boy do it like that before. He was weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about. 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 73
   You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.

noun

1. A short time or short distance.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.

noun

1. (colloquial, uncountable) Urine.
2. (colloquial, countable) An act of urination.
   I need to have a wee.

verb

1. (UK, colloquial) To urinate.
   I need to wee! I can't hold it any longer!
   When I was young, I was up every night until the wee hours. Now I'm up every hour at night to wee. Mar 15 2011, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)

Etymology 3

* see we

pron

1. obsolete emphatic of we
   Yet lest wee should be Capernaitans, as wee are told there that the flesh profiteth nothing, so wee are told heer, if we be not as deaf as adders, that this union of the flesh proceeds from the union of a fit help and solace. 1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon